Katur stopped by this afternoon to show off his new Redbook: Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products, written in collaboration with other good peeps, several of which I've had the pleasure of working with. Katur Patel and...

Jazz.net is live with a completely reworked and improved website The new Jazz.net site includes the addition of Rational Requirements
Composer, Quality Manager, and Focal Point for Project Management. We
have done what you asked for and made much more of...

IBM Education Assistant is a series of educational modules designed to help you gain a better understanding of IBM software products and use them more effectively to meet your business needs. We have several new IEA modules available: How to configure the...

Check out this new video from Carolyn Pampino and our friends at jazz.net : How do you know when you're really ready to
release? Answering this question requires ALM visibility spanning
project management, requirements, coding, build and testing artifacts....

For some reason, it seems as if everyone's grandfather at one point in time recommended to use the right tools for the job. That's practical wisdom from my point of view, one that is certainly an issue for agile development. One of the primary messages, I...

Application Lifecycle Management, also known as ALM, is not a new phrase in software development, but perhaps one with which you are still not entirely familiar. ALM can help improve lifecycle collaboration and software development efficiency. How, you may be...

How do you know when you're really ready to release? Answering this
question requires ALM visibility spanning project management,
requirements, coding, build and testing artifacts. In this demo, we show
how the Rational solution provides the end-to-end...

Have you ever been on a software project and asked yourself "where has
all the time gone" ? Often the reason why a project is late, is because
of all the time being spent on stuff that doesn't help get to the end
goal of a deployed system. ...

A customer question came in about our stated multi-CPU server requirement for the Jazz products. When we say dual CPUs with quad CPUs preferred as our system requirements, what do we really mean? My response follows and the discussion will make the hardware...

There are many configurations that you can use when deploying the CLM products on a single web application server. When you are doing this, there are a number of best practices to consider: Create separate virtual hostnames for each of the application...

On Nov 16 2011, Kim Werner, Agile Coach from ATSC and Liz Parnell, Solution Design Manager from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), gave a webcast sharing their experiences regarding how BCBSNC adopted a few Agile techniques, with the help of...

Executive summary : Take the OSLC 2012 Community Survey and encourage your colleagues to do the same, because it is good for
the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration community and it is good
for you. Share and discuss the survey using #OSLCSurvey on...

We're calling on Ulrike Vauth, a business architect with IBM Global Business Services. As an Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect, her experience with mid-sized to large application development spans the lifecycle, including requirements...

In the last post we focused on what you can expect from Requirements Management for Systems Engineering track at Innovate 2012. In this post we will explore what is there in Requirements definition and management for IT application development track at...

The Jazz Plan Jam opened this morning. I've been browsing the ideas submitted so far and believe me, there are some really good ideas, but these are the ones I think are really cool: Transform a storyboard into usable code (Tools doing work for me is always...

I hope everybody had a safe trip back home from Innovate! After the annoucement of the next version of the IBM Rational Connector for SAP at Innovate, I have received a few requests over the weekend. The new connector will have full CLM 4.0 support and will be...

Hooray, hooray, hooray!!! We are excited to announce CLM 2012 and with new release, we have updated Money that Matters Lifecycle Scenario 2012 (MTM). First of all, MTM has entered into history as first project/scenario hosted on jazz.net using Rational...

Have you tried the sandboxes
on jazz.net ?? Well, I just did, I was
looking to have a quick and easy way to 'see' what are the new capabilities
available with CLM 2012. CLM 2012 is comprized of Rational
Team Concert 4.0 , Rational
Quality Manager 4.0...

Hot and fresh from the labs: the new version of the IBM Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager has just been released! Integrate Rational CLM 4.0 with SAP. If you can't wait until Monday go to Jazz.net and start the Download now!

We had a series of announcements earlier this month during Innovate 2012. The major announcements pertaining to Requirements Management space were RRC 4.0, DOORS 9.4 and DOORS Next Generation Beta. This blog post aims to dive a little deeper into these and...

A lot have been talked about CLM 2012 and Rational Requirements Composer 4.0 since their release in June 2012. RRC 4.0 is now available for download from jazz.net .I am sure, most of you have already downloaded and started playing around with it.In this post,...

There is no doubt that the evolution of computing has moved into the era of the mobile device and any business that wants to remain competitive in an increasingly difficult economic environment needs to embrace this with the care and attention it deserves....

MEGATREND , an IBM partner has organized IBM Rational Jazz event on August 23. 2012 in Sarajevo. I had a pleasure to be a speaker at this event where I introduced IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management powered Jazz technology. My...

There are new videos available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational . There is now a series of videos covering RRDI, a reporting component for the CLM V4.0 applications Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer....

You heard me taking about extending Rational CLM with Design Management (DM) since Rational Innovate in June, 2012. We provided you a chance to read how DM fits into Rational CLM with the Money that Matters Lifecycle Scenario and test drive it with DM beta...

We all have our experiences working on various project to share, as well as preferred way how to use Rational solutions/applications. I often hear need to provide details about certain features or I get an email with specific question from clients. Wouldn't...

September is back to school month. Kids are adjusting to school after a long and enjoyable summer, and for parents, like myself, to get into the groove of juggling work and kid's activities. Sometimes, I wish we could follow similar patterns with development...

Rethink IT, reinvent business IBM SmartCloud enables a new era of computing Here is something you have probably heard from IBM Rational over the past several years: Innovation in software will differentiate your products and services from the competition,...

L ate last year, CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle Management) 4.0.1 was released. Rational Requirements Composer 4.0.1 was also part of it. This release marked a significant milestone for RRC with some great additions. In this post, I will try to briefly try to...

There are new videos available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational . There are several videos covering topics for the Rational CLM products and migrating users between Rational Change and Rational Directory Server. Check them out! Rational Collaborative...

This year, Innovate - The IBM Technical Summit will be held from June 2 to 6 at Orlando, Florida. As in previous editions, we will be having two tracks dedicated to requirements management at the event. One track would be...

There is an information packed, 24-video series now available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational . The video series demonstrates an example enterprise deployment of Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (RTC/RQM/RRC) with RRDI....

The video series showing an example of a CLM and RRDI enterprise deployment featured on IBM Education Assistant for Rational is now also available on the IBM Rational Support YouTube channel ! Rational...

We have some new education content for Rational Focal Point and Rational Requirements Composer! For RFP, there is a new video available on IBM Education Assistant for Rational and the IBM Rational Support YouTube channel...

Have you looked at modules in Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) or DOORS Next Generation (DNG) yet? If not, I would suggest you take a look to see if it can help you better organize and manage your requirements. We think they're kind of a...

Many teams find it challenging to get a project started quickly, to get team members oriented, to set up and configure tools, and to take advantage of proven patternsof success to do their jobs. Many other teams are required to document their processes for...

There is a new video for the CLM products Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer. The video demonstrations how you can gather and send diagnostic logs to support using IBM Support Assistent Lite. The video is...

Consider this scenario: An Analyst removed and deleted certain artifacts within a IBM Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) module. These artifacts were linked to IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) work items. There was a need to know if there is a way to...

Are you planning an upgrade to a newer release of IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Requirements Composer (RRC), Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG) or your Jazz Team Server (JTS) and unsure about whether or not your...

To predict the future of Requirements Management (RM) tools I think it’s important to take a brief look back in history and see if we can spot any important trends. Requirements Management tools differentiate themselves from “typical”...